Commercial Box Trucks For Sale – Filling electric trucks or buses at fleet depots – or electric cars in apartments, workplaces, or general fast filling stations – must be far cheaper than filling gasoline or diesel. Unfortunately, that often does not occur in locations that receive electricity with utility tariffs designed for commercial buildings and industrial operations that do not reflect the flexible nature of charging electric vehicles (EV).

To remedy this mismatch, Southern California Edison (SCE) and Pacific Gas and Electric (PG & E), the two largest utilities in the country, have developed innovative tariff packages specifically designed for charging commercial EVs, providing significant fuel cost savings to customers who fill EV in a way that supports the electricity network.

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This new commercial tariff is needed to successfully implement an EV charging infrastructure program approved earlier this year by the California Public Utilities Commission (PUC) – recording more than $ 600 million to support electric trucks, buses, forklifts, other medium and heavy vehicles, and stations fast charging. The SCE companion tariff was authorized earlier this year, while PG & E proposed new rates in early November. These new rates are not subsidized, but are designed to reflect the unique nature and cost of charging EV, and will help expand the EV market. The following is a summary of the SCE and PG & E approaches:

Commercial & Industrial EV prices approved by SCE
Electric buses, trucks, and general fast filling stations are not like buildings – EV only charges a few hours a day and can change charging requests when most people sleep and there is a lot of spare capacity in the electricity network – but until now they have generally been forced into plans rates designed for large buildings and industrial operations that use electricity are more constant. Most commercial and industrial tariffs include “demand fees” based on the facility’s highest demand point for electricity at any time of the month. Because EV consumes a lot of electricity when plugged in, these demand costs mean large bills, even if they charge when underutilized and cheap electricity networks.

SCE solves this problem by removing demand costs for the next five years and restoring pure costs through “usage time” rates (based on the total amount of electricity used and when used) which encourages customers to charge when solar and wind energy is abundant and when there is excess capacity on the network. After five years, the cost of demand will be removed again, with the theory that demand fees will not be a big problem when there are more EVs on the road, increasing the utilization of charging stations and allowing customers to spread demand costs over hours of charging. That might apply in general, but the cost of demand can still cause problems for locations that may never see high utilization rates (but that may still be an important place to have filling stations, such as the remote locations needed to allow people to occasionally travelling).

Utilities estimate the new tariff will cut half of the bills for typical customers – not by subsidizing EV charging or transferring fees to other customers, but by creating rates that more accurately reflect the true costs and unique nature of EV charging. In fact, because widespread EV charging can reduce prices for all electricity customers by spreading the cost of maintaining more networks than electricity sales, this new tariff benefits everyone by helping to expand the EV market.

PG & E Proposed EV Commercial & Industrial Rates
At the existing PG & E commercial and industrial level (C & I), charging costs are often equal to or more expensive than filling with gasoline or diesel (see orange diamond in the image below). However, under the newly proposed PG & E EV (CEV) commercial rates, these sites will save 30 percent to 50 percent on their current monthly bills and will pay about half the price they would have if they used gas or diesel (see the green bar in the image below).

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